Datang: Acting as a celestial mystery at the beginning

At this moment, at Li Jing's home.

"Are you sure, you really want to join the army?"

Li Jing sat in the main hall with a serious face, looking at Li Dejian standing in front of him.

"That's right, I've figured it out. I learned a lot from my husband today, and I'm more determined to join the army."

Li Dejian nodded and said: "Even if it's Aye, how you want to punish me, I just want to join the army. This motivates me more than studying and becoming an official. It is also my dream."

His father was a famous God of War in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. As a son, Li Dejian was unwilling to be lonely.

Li Jing asked, "What did the master teach you today?"

"Sir taught us the art of war!"

Almost at the same time, in Yuchi Jingde's house, Yuchi Baolin also told her father all these things, and continued: "Sir, soldiers are cunning, winning with oddities, water has no normal state, and soldiers have no permanent shape."

"From now on, I don't want to do any harm to Chang'an anymore. I want to follow my husband honestly, and I may gain more."

Like Li Dejian, Yuchi Baolin said these words very firmly.

"That gentleman, you have some skills!"

Yuchi Jingde has never met Li Yi'an, but he feels that he can make his son, who has always been a playboy, change his temperament drastically.

To find time, you have to thank him well.

People who also have this idea, and Cheng Yaojin.

In the past, when Cheng Chumo came back, Cheng Yaojin couldn't help but pick up the ax and compete with him.

Cheng Chumo came back today, as if he had something on his mind, he was not even interested in fighting, after a question, Cheng Yaojin also learned what happened today.

"Ugh!"

Cheng Yaojin sighed: "If my husband can be born more than ten or twenty years earlier, we will go to the battlefield together to fight Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande, wouldn't it be very refreshing?"

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Li Yi'an didn't know that he was missed by so many people today.

After sending Li Chengqian and the others away, they went to find Li Changge to be tender for a while, but the Aunt Wang who lived next door came to him at this time inappropriately.

"Sir, something serious happened!"

Aunt Wang ran in anxiously and said, "I just came back from Chang'an, and I got bad news. The Cui family sold us salt in Wannian County, which was more than three times as expensive. In addition, items such as cloth, meat, grain, and even Some vegetarian vegetables and fruits all increase in price for our Wannian County."

"Now in Wannian County, there is a saying that if you want the price to return to normal, you must be kicked out, sir, otherwise the Cui family will make Wannian County impossible to buy anything."

After hearing these words, Li Yi'an knew without thinking that it must be the revenge of the five surnames and Qiwang.

"that's it?"

Li Yi'an smiled disapprovingly: "You don't think you want to drive me out, do you?"

"No way!"

Aunt Wang immediately shook her head and said, "Mister is kind to all of us in Wannian County. Even if we don't eat salt, drink alcohol, or wear new clothes, we will definitely not drive you away."

Li Yi'an nodded and said: "Thank you for your understanding, I probably know it too, don't worry, ma'am, this situation won't last long, I will find a way to solve it."

Aunt Wang breathed a sigh of relief.

It's just that, just as he sent Aunt Wang away, he saw Fang Yucheng rushing over again.

"Sir, it's bad!"

Fang Yucheng jumped down from the carriage, and said: "Five Surnames and Seven Wangs made people boycott all the shops of our Fang family, and ordered all merchants in Chang'an, even ordinary people, not to cooperate with the Fang family and not to get the Fang family's shops. People who are related to Mr. can’t buy anything in Chang’an. No matter how much money they have, Ma Zhou almost has nothing to eat and can only come to me. In addition, I also heard from Ma Zhou that Even when the imperial court wants to buy things outside, the prices are deliberately raised by them, and they are more than three times more expensive than before."

"That's all there is to their means."

Li Yi'an didn't seem to take these things to heart.

"Aren't you worried, sir? They are already very powerful like this. What should we do?"

Fang Yucheng is very anxious. Their Fang family's business has been boycotted, and with their current strength, they can support it for a month or two. However, this kind of boycott cannot end in a month or two, but will continue like this.

Five Surnames and Seven Wangs can make an ordinary merchant like him perish, even if His Majesty is behind him.

"Why do you think the aristocratic family can make everyone afraid of them with one word, and then control all the goods in the world, so that people dare not buy Fang's things, and dare not sell them to us?"

Li Yian asked him back.

"Because the family is powerful and powerful."

Fang Yucheng said.

"This is just one of them. Behind us is the imperial court. In fact, we have power, so there is a second!"

Li Yi'an analyzed and said: "That is a monopoly!"

"The aristocratic family has mastered most of the merchants, such as salt, wine, cloth and other daily necessities, and almost all the necessities of the people are in their hands. Coupled with the support of power and influence, the people dare not buy their things. How dare you disobey their orders?"

"Simply put, it is to hold the lifeline of the economy."

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Chapter 81 Antitrust

monopoly!

Economic lifeline!

It was the first time Fang Yucheng heard such a word, but after thinking about it, it was not difficult to understand what it meant.

Such a description is also very delicate and vivid.

The aristocratic family, especially the five surnames and Qiwang, their power and resources are equivalent to monopolizing many things that are indispensable to the people of the Tang Dynasty, that is, they control the economic lifeline of the society.

What they monopolize are not only goods, but even scholars, who have to go through the aristocratic family to be recommended. Ordinary poor scholars can only raise and wash horses for the aristocratic family in exchange for a recommended place.

Monopoly, what a terrible word.

Once the lifeline is controlled by others, you will lose your autonomy, and you have to listen to others no matter what, which is tantamount to being choked by others.

"Then what are we going to do?"

Fang Yucheng asked again, he still didn't quite understand what the husband was going to do.